RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Yasuke

1530 - Today

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Yasuke (Japanese: 弥助 / 弥介, pronounced [jasɯ̥ke]) was a samurai of African origin who served Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death. According to historical accounts, Yasuke first arrived in Japan in the service of Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. Nobunaga summoned him out of a desire to see a black man. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasuke has received more than 7,496,653 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Yasuke is the 579th most popular religious figure (up from 629th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Mozambique and the most popular Mozambican Religious Figure.

Yasuke was a samurai who traveled to Japan in the 1500s. He was the first foreigner to ever live in Japan, and he became a samurai for the warlord Oda Nobunaga. He is most famous for being the first foreigner to ever live in Japan.

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  • 25

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  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Yasuke ranks 579 out of 3,187. Before him are Zayd ibn Ali, Sabbas the Sanctified, Saint Giles, Pope John VII, Rabanus Maurus, and Dōgen. After him are Hugues de Payens, Francis of Paola, Muadh ibn Jabal, Camillus de Lellis, Anna the Prophetess, and Edward the Confessor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Yasuke ranks 5. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, Jean Bodin, Étienne de La Boétie, and Uesugi Kenshin. After him are Jean Nicot, Ruy López de Segura, Anastasia Romanovna, Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Christopher Báthory.

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In Mozambique

Among people born in Mozambique, Yasuke ranks 2 out of 38. Before him are Eusébio (1942). After him are Carlos Queiroz (1953), Samora Machel (1933), Graça Machel (1945), Joaquim Chissano (1939), Armando Guebuza (1943), Mário Coluna (1935), Filipe Nyusi (1959), Afric Simone (1956), Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936), and Eduardo Mondlane (1920).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mozambique

Among religious figures born in Mozambique, Yasuke ranks 1. After him are Júlio Duarte Langa (1927), and Alexandre José Maria dos Santos (1924).

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